Meso/Sumer Vocab
A means of supplying land with water
Irrigation
An existence after death
Afterlife
What do you call the area in the Middle East where all of the soil was very nutrient due to the rivers flooding?
the Fertile Crescent
Which European explorer landed in the Caribbean in 1492, marking the start of sustained contact between Europe and the Americas?
Christopher Columbus
What color is a polar bear's skin underneath all that white fur?
Black (It helps them absorb warmth from the sun!)
To train wild animals to be useful to humans
Domestication
A person who does farm work for wealthy landowners
Peasant
Name a Mesopotamian invention
Wheel, sailboat, math, writing, plow
Which famous Italian city was once the capital of an empire that built the Colosseum and aqueducts?
Rome
What is the only fruit that grows its seeds on the outside?
A Strawberry
The business of farming; growing crops and raising animals
Agriculture
A ruler of Ancient Egypt
Pharaoh
2 rivers that were important to Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
In which country did the Olympics originate as a festival to honor Zeus?
Ancient Greece
What is the largest organ in the human body?
the Skin
A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding
Levee
A group in society that is ranked by factors such as wealth, property, and rights
Social Class
What does Mesopotamia translate to?
The land between the rivers
What structure was built across northern China to protect the empire from invading groups like the Mongols?
Great Wall of China
What common kitchen food never spoils or rots if stored properly, even after thousands of years?
Honey
Fine particles of rock
Silt
Cat/Lion statue located near the pyramids is called what?
Sphinx
Which king of Babylon is famous for creating one of the earliest written legal codes, famous for the concept of "an eye for an eye"?
Hammurabi
Which ancient civilization in South America built the famous stone city of Machu Picchu high in the Andes Mountains?
Inca Empire
Which single letter of the English alphabet does not appear in the name of any of the 50 U.S. states?
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